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As the launch of Same Sky edges closer, it’s time to celebrate! For this week only, I am offering readers of Another Lost Shark the chance to purchase a copy of Same Sky at the special pre-launch price of $12 including postage anywhere in the world.

The Another Lost Shark Store is also offering a First Words special this week. For just $20 (including postage anywhere in the world) you can purchase Volume 1: Private Conversations by Cameron Hindrum and Volume 2: Same Sky by Cindy Keong.

And to add to the excitement, the first person to order Same Skywill receive a free copy of Private Conversations.

It’s been all systems go here at Lost Shark HQ this last month or so… three books about to launch, the residency at Varuna and now this gem… a chapbook titled Presence that I had the immense pleasure of curating for Cordite.

Presence features artwork by Cindy Keong and new poems from Nathan Shepherdson, Pascalle Burton, Aidan Coleman, Louise Oxley, Ross Donlon, Tim Sinclair, Jean Kent, Jon Paul Fiorentino, Sachiko Murakami and Jacqueline Turner. Each of the artists responded to the idea of Presence in their own way, making this a unique reading experience.

I am on launch countdown at the moment… as many of you will know, in just 13 days, I will be launching Cindy Keong’s stunning debut, Same Sky and then on the last weekend in August at QPF 2013: spoken in one strange word, I will be launching Nathan Shepherdson’s latest collection, The Day The Artists Stood Still. It is exciting times!

I am incredibly proud of both of these books, so for now, let me leave you with an excerpt from Nathan’s poem, racking up dialogues on blue felt from The Day The Artists Stood Still.

7 – burgundy – solid

the body as always
is an unsigned contract
time-paid in percentages and reason
it presents as a mirror
fed on its own rivalled hunger
as it slowly learns
to pronounce life
through its burgundy lips
heavy with charcoal dust
and the insecure shadows
thrown out with unlicensed light
from a cannibal moon

art is a permission
reconstructing an entire anatomy
from one thought

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13 – orange – stripe

frequently asked
to perform surgery on a metaphor
he often finds himself
putting stitches in an apple

and the orange thread
he so diligently uses
was sterilised in the sun
and has the breaking strain
of unique internal argument

Almost two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of spending time with a handful of poets exploring the art of haiku in the immensely beautiful surrounds of Ingham’s TYTO Wetlands. Our ginko produced some fine poems, and Cindy, as always, took some incredible photos so that you can share in the beauty. I want to say a big thank you to all of the poets involved.

It’s time for one last remix of My Aching Back… and with this post comes the news that the original poem will be published in Kokako, a fine journal of Japanese forms published in New Zealand. It’s wonderful to see this poem reaching a wide audience. So now, it’s over to Lyndon to give it one last spin…

It’s time to start posting the remixes of My Aching Back. Reading each one has deepened my love of the process and of the work it inspired. So let’s kick things off with the Mal Keeble remix, along with a few notes about his process…

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To keep the learning process going I have taken a running leap at the shisan remix. I decided to keep the first three links as to break them up would have been an injustice to the words and the poets. The remix proved to be more difficult than I thought… Each of the poems appears as they were originally submitted, except for Miguel’s which I have edited slightly.